So I set the clock at 17:05 to match the hardware clock and it's been
running about 4 hours now with ntp and here's what I've got.
jpschewe at jen:~> date
Thu May 28 17:56:36 CDT 2009
jen:/home/jpschewe # hwclock
Thu 28 May 2009 09:18:40 PM CDT  -0.060009 seconds
jen:/home/jpschewe # ntpq -p
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset 
jitter
==============================================================================
 ntp2.lax-noc.co 204.123.2.5      2 u   21   64  377   15.170  1219819
1154510
 skywiley.com    192.43.244.18    2 u    3   64  377   11.136  1227014
1151437
 tesla.fireduck. 132.239.1.6      2 u   64   64  377   11.946  1202625
1138791


Jon Schewe wrote:
> I've got an opensuse 11.0 system with kernel 2.6.25 and I'm finding that
> with or without ntp running the system clock falls way behind. Checking
> hwclock shows the correct time, but date is hours behind. Right after
> ntp starts up I see this:
> jen:/home/jpschewe # ntpq -p
>      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset 
> jitter
> ==============================================================================
>  ntp2.lax-noc.co 204.123.2.5      2 u   19   64    1   16.088  127006.  
> 3.906
>  skywiley.com    192.43.244.18    2 u   18   64    1   16.285  130991.  
> 3.906
>  tesla.fireduck. 132.239.1.6      2 u   17   64    1   13.431  134998.  
> 3.906
>
> At this point I've just set the system time to match the hardware clock
> and it's within a minute of reality, however that offset column seem way
> to large for something this close.
>
> Anyone got any ideas?
>
>   

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